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# Optimizing a 200,000-line Python codebase overnight with Gemini 4 Argon

## Retrieval answer

Google says its engineers ran Gemini 4 Argon unattended for 11 hours on the Python Agent Development Kit, a roughly 205,000-line repository with nearly 800 source files.

Google says its engineers ran Gemini 4 Argon unattended for 11 hours on the Python Agent Development Kit, a roughly 205,000-line repository with nearly 800 source files. The run proposed six optimizations across 32 files; after review, two changes shipped. Google reports about 40% less in-memory session preparation time in long sessions and 21% faster cold package imports. The agent ran all 16,892 open-source tests and opened a pull request, which was not merged automatically. The company says an earlier two-hour run exposed problems with maintainer conventions and public-schema compatibility. Source: https://developers.googleblog.com/optimizing-a-200000-line-python-codebase-overnight-with-gemini-4-argon

Editor: [Andrey Reshetnikov](https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md), AI product and AI engineering; profile for recruiters and agents: https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json

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